Executive Director for the Midland Research Institute for Value Chain Creation

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY, Eli Broad College of Business is
seeking a professionally prominent, dynamic leader to serve as
Executive Director for the Midland Research Institute for Value
Chain Creation (MRIVCC) in Midland, MI. Established by Michigan
State University with the very generous financial support of
multiple philanthropic and corporate donors in the Midland region,
MRIVCC is intended to achieve international prominence in
identifying and addressing "Grand Challenge" caliber value chain
research problems. Examples could include: research and technology
development in large data analytics, smart packaging,
anti-counterfeiting, real-time stochastic modeling, and adaptive
sensor networks. Research applications are expected to foster value
chain creation and growth, as well as implicating possible business
disruption and governmental regulation issues. Anticipated impacts
for MRIVCC activity include improved economic competitiveness,
enhanced quality of human life, environmental sustainability, and
corporate "intrapreneurship." Recruiting outstanding value chain
researchers, promoting international corporate, academic, and
governmental collaborators, and securing necessary resources for
their support will be priority activities for the Executive
Director.

The top-ranked Department of Supply Chain Management in Michigan
State University's Broad College of Business is providing
intellectual leadership and initial staffing to MRIVCC, in
cooperation with MSU's School of Packaging, Department of Food
Science & Human Nutrition, and College of Engineering. This is
a fixed-term academic staff position at the specialist level. For
individuals that might have appropriate academic credentials, an
academic faculty appointment could be considered.

A successful candidate will:
* Bring substantial personal integrity, industrial experience,
supply-chain-related research expertise, and effective leadership
to an organizationally young, entrepreneurially-focused Institute,
with the aim of establishing internationally recognized research
and development excellence relevant to private sector needs.
* Lead by example, by recruiting and leading a personal research
and development group to conduct internationally competitive study
in some area of value chain creation.
* Actively oversee the development of a diverse set of other
independent research and development groups led by distinguished
colleagues.
* Liaise with corporate, economic development, philanthropic, and
governmental collaborators, with the aim of ensuring that Institute
programs achieve demonstrable positive impact for the nation and
the world.
* Develop a sustainable funding base for Institute research through
energetic and successful solicitation of peer-reviewed grants,
cooperative research agreements, and industrial affiliate group
memberships.
* Build appropriate, mutually beneficial collaborative
relationships with faculty and units on the MSU campus and at other
MSU sites throughout Michigan, and with similar faculty and units
at collaborating academic institutions in the U.S. and
abroad.
* Exploit opportunistically emerging possibilities for education
and training efforts that align well with the purpose of the
Institute.

Minimum Qualifications
* A combination of 20 or more years of experience in academia or
industry with experience in grants and contracts, business, and
value chain;
* Master's degree in a business or engineering related
field.

Desired Qualifications
* Academic record consistent with that of a named professor at a
Research I university;
* Doctoral degree (preferably in a business or engineering related
field).

Applications must be submitted online at: https://jobs.msu.edu. Refer
to posting #9466. Review of applications will
begin on June 1, 2014. The preferred start date is August
2014. For additional information, please contact Dr. David Closs,
Department Chair (closs@msu.edu) or Dr.
Vallabh Sambamurthy (Samba@msu.edu).

Broad College of Business

MSU is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. MSU is
committed to achieving excellence through cultural diversity. The
university actively encourages applications and/or nominations of
women, persons of color, veterans and persons with
disabilities.